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07
Feb.
2025
Santa Barbara
Costa Restaurant
Mar Monte Hotel
1111 E. Cabrillo
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
United States of America
 
The Santa Barbara Rotary Club is pleased to welcome Kieran Shah, the President and CEO of VNA Health, the third oldest Visiting Nurse Association in California. VNA Health continues to be a nonprofit leader in comprehensive home healthcare by providing home health, palliative care, hospice and a variety of community programs throughout the Santa Barbara region.
 
Demonstrating an unwavering commitment to patients, families, communities, and staff, Kieran is proud to help lead organizations to fulfill their mission and vision. While ensuring strong financial stability, philanthropy, and stewarding the organization’s future, he focuses on the heart of hospice by maintaining a patient-centered model of care. Under Kieran’s leadership, his organizations have consistently been positioned as the provider and employer of choice within their geographic service areas.
 
Kieran is a nationally recognized leader in Advanced Illness Care operations and Patient Access. Through innovative approaches to serious illness care, his organizations continue to have a deeper impact with patients and families, within healthcare systems, and with providers. In collaboration with the Board of Directors, Kieran has also helped lead acquisitions and mergers to strengthen the commitment of care at Hospice of the Valley, and in the creation of the California Hospice Network.
 
Kieran brings 20+ years of strategic leadership, business development, operational planning, innovative contracting, and process improvement on both US coasts and in the United Kingdom.  Kieran serves on the Board of Directors for CenCal Health and the Ridley Foundation. He previously sat on the Boards of the Central California Alliance for Health’s Continuous Quality Improvement Committee, and the California Association of Healthcare Leaders (CAHL / ACHE). He served as the End-of-Life Care Thought Leader for the Santa Clara County LTSS Integration Subcommittee, and an advisory group to the County Board of Supervisors to improve transitional and facility based care for seniors across the region. In 2023, Kieran was recognized as a Pacific Coast Business Times Champion of Healthcare and received the ACHE Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award in 2016.